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xml:id="sec-release-21.05">
<title>Release 21.05 (“Okapi”, 2021.05/??)</title>
<para>
Support is planned until the end of December 2021, handing over to 21.11.
</para>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Support is planned until the end of December 2021, handing over to 21.11.
Core version changes:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
gcc: 9.3.0 -> 10.3.0
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
glibc: 2.30 -> 2.32
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
default linux: 5.4 -> 5.10, all supported kernels available
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
mesa: 20.1.7 -> 21.0.1
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The default Linux kernel was updated to the 5.10 LTS series, coming from the 5.4 LTS series.</para>
<para>The <package>linux_latest</package> kernel was updated to the 5.12 series. It currently is not officially supported for use with the zfs filesystem. If you use zfs, you should use a different kernel version (either the LTS kernel, or track a specific one). </para>
<para>
Desktop Environments:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Gnome: 3.36 -> 3.40, see its <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.40/">release notes</link>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Plasma5: 5.18.5 -> 5.21.3
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
kdeApplications: 20.08.1 -> 20.12.3
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
cinnamon: 4.6 -> 4.8.1
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GNOME desktop environment was upgraded to 40, see the release notes for <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/">40.0</link> and <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/">3.38</link>. The <code>gnome3</code> attribute set has been renamed to <code>gnome</code> and so have been the NixOS options.</para>
<para>
Programming Languages and Frameworks:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Python optimizations were disabled again. Builds with optimizations enabled
are not reproducible. Optimizations can now be enabled with an option.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://www.gnuradio.org/">GNURadio</link> 3.8 was
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</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>GNOME desktop environment was upgraded to 40, see the release notes for <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/">40.0</link> and <link xlink:href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/">3.38</link>. The <code>gnome3</code> attribute set has been renamed to <code>gnome</code> and so have been the NixOS options.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
If you are using <option>services.udev.extraRules</option> to assign